Category: Making

How do I know, as an artist, if I’m making progress? Well, that depends on what I focus on.

How long does it take before I start feeling like the work I’m making is distinctly mine?

How much should you stick with what you know, and what people expect, versus playing and experimenting with new ideas and new ways of making?

How does one improve their imagination once they become a logical, sensible, rational adult?

In a world awash with illustration and art theory, is there a better way to judge whether a drawing is any good?

There may be no other tool so well-suited to exploration and erasure than a pencil.

Is it possible to find pleasure in habit? To turn ‘chores’ into something more enjoyable?

Are unbroken writing streaks really that good for me? What if I broke the cardinal rule – write every week – to do something different?

When the goalposts for what success looks like keep moving (either of my own doing or of the culture’s), then what’s succesful anymore?

What should painters paint? What should illustrators illustrate?